On Jan 18, 2011 9:46 PM, "Erik B. Andersen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >At many higher education institutions, we have policies that we need to know who is using any given IP address at any point in time.
If you *need* to know, and computer are self-managed, then the fact that privacy addresses are disabled by default doesn't really help. You need to log data from the switches as well. > >Privacy addresses make this much, much harder. Yes, we can disable them on managed machines, but not all machines on our network are managed. For example, student laptops on wireless networks. So, the default setting matters. Microsoft enables privacy addresses by default on Vista and 7, and it is already creating problems for us. And windows isn't going away. > >Frankly, privacy addresses do very little to enhance privacy and create significant headaches for network administrators. > I just don't see how changing the default will do anything when the user could just change it back if they wanted to. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176125 Title: Ubuntu should activate the IPv6 privacy extension by default (echo 2 >/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/use_tempaddr) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
